Hidden inside songbirds sit birdsongs and songbirds, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 239 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
birdsongs and songbirds tie for the highest Scrabble score from songbirds at 13 points. The top 10 of 239 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in songbirds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and songbirds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are birdsongs and songbirds, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in songbirds. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are birdsong and songbird, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in songbirds produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bodings, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling songbirds turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with boring, brings, grinds, and groins. For points, the strongest play is boding — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in songbirds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with binds, bingo, birds, bonds, bring, doing, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are bigos, binds, bingo, biogs, birds, boing, bonds, bongs, brigs, bring, and dribs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in songbirds produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bids, bind, bird, bond, born, boss, and dibs. For points, the strongest plays are bids, bigs, bind, bing, biog, bird, bods, bogs, bond, bong, brig, dibs, drib, gibs, and gobs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling songbirds turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bid, big, dig, dog, god, ids, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are bid, big, bod, bog, dib, gib, and gob — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in songbirds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, id, in, is, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in songbirds plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in songbirds and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
songbirds is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for songbirds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
songbirds is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing songbirds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are birdsongs and songbirds, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from songbirds earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in songbirds produce 239 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.